Jane Fonda's child abuse revelations

Jane Fonda has revealed she was raped in a candid new interview.

The 79-year-old actress and activist also said she was sexually abused as a child in The EDIT magazine interview.

The two-time Oscar winner went on to say that she was once fired from a job because she wouldn't sleep with her boss.

'To show you the extent to which a patriarchy takes a toll on females; I've been raped, I've been sexually abused as a child and I've been fired because I wouldn't sleep with my boss and I always thought it was my fault; that I didn't do or say the right thing,' she said.

The mother-of-three says she even knows girls who are unaware they've been sexual assault victims.

'I know young girls who've been raped and didn't even know it was rape,' she says. 'They think, "It must have been because I said 'no' the wrong way."

'One of the great things the women's movement has done is to make us realise that [rape and abuse is] not our fault. We were violated and it's not right.'

Fonda did not reveal who raped or sexually abused her during the candid interview.

Jane has never shied away from speaking candidly about her family - in September 2014, she revealed her mother had been sexually abused and eventually committed suicide.

Jane made the personal revelation as she hosted an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rape Treatment Center, which provides comprehensive free treatment for sexual assault victims.

The star said she discovered while writing her memoirs that her mother had been sexually abused as a girl.

Jane said she reviewed her mother's medical records and discovered she had been sexually abused when she was 8 years old.

Frances Ford Seymour committed suicide when Fonda was 12.

- Daily Mail